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Visited Tiananmen Square and Fobidden City on Sunday but hadn’t had time to up-date. Forbidden City, where the emperor’s used to live through-out different dinasties, occupies an approximate 150-acre area in Beijing’s historic center. The palace has 9,900 rooms in which 30,000 people lived at some point to serve 100 royal family members. In parallel, the city where the South Dakota University group with whom I was touring the city, has 20,000 inhabitants.

It is a palace of overwhelming proportions, hard to describe and full of symbolisms and high security through many gates and kilometer wide walls.